Musea Art Review #52: Barry Dog Wherever You are (poem)
musea/Tom Hendricks
Title: Barry Dog Wherever You are
What is it? Poem
Technical Quality: Average
Innovative Quality: Nothing new in style here.
Review: Straigthforward poem with four lines
to the verse and 27 verses is the sentimental remembrance
of a favorite coon dog named Barry by Jack Winters
Hamilton.
The unrhymed verse has 4 beats to the first and 3rd lines,
with 3 for the 2nd and fourth.
Barry, a favorite coondog, gets old and misses a big
hunt, his place taken by the younger pups. Two days later
he wanders off and dies.
The poem is not great poetry but it is heartfelt and
honest. And any reader can sense the love between
man and dog that gives the poem it ring of truth.
Sample verses:
So sleep the long sleep partner
Your body got weak and old
But your memory will live forever
Your story told and retold
The campfires will be lonely
The hunt won't be the same
Your every effort was for me Barry
So thanks I'll remember your name
Contact Info:
Jack Winters Hamilton
ran...@airmail.net
www.coondawgs.com
Overall Grade: 3.3
Grading system: 9-10 Highest grade - Life's work of
a master (ex. Collected plays of Shakespeare, collected
symphonies of Beethoven) 8-9 Single best work of a
celebrated master's career. 7-8. Best work of an era or
genre or decade. 6-7 Best work of the year. 5-6 Very
good. 4-5 More good than bad. 3-4 Average amount
of good = amount of bad. 2-3 Mostly bad with some
redeeming parts. 1-2 Nothing redeemable. 0-1 So bad
it is offensively bad and outrages the reviewere for
taking up that time in his life - just awful.
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Tom Hendricks tomhend...@cs.com
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